last updated 8/9/06
| a boundless extended-family vision . . . | |
| I am traveling to kitchens, community rooms, and other gathering places in the northeast to celebrate NEIGHBORCARE, a joyful band of volunteers offering free-of-charge, health-related assistance to ill, dying, physically challenged_and heartsick_ neighbors (caregivers and caregetters) in thirteen towns on the Blue Hill, Maine peninsula (and beyond) who fall between the cracks of the healthcare system. |  HomeTalks by maggie davis "Come warm your heart . . ." |
Neighborcare (co-founded by me and several others in 1995) has evolved in ways that continue to mystify and enliven me. “Our joyful band” is simple, merciful and all-embracing (by choice not 501c3). I am moved to speak of its ongrowing good wherever and whenever I can, as well as of the truths and practices that embody its great heart.
The HomeTalks are for caregivers—both lay and professional, including physicians, nurses, social workers, homecare providers, parents, teachers, young people, clergy—who want their caring felt and wish a world for all of us that celebrates diversity as well as deep wellspring connections.
During the HomeTalks, I speak of the
shift in seeing that inspires my life, present practical support for
caregivers gleaned from personal caregiving/caregetting experiences,
and invite those whose company I’m sharing to convey their own
caregiving/caregetting stories.
In addition, if asked, I am happy to. . .
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offer initial and ongoing support to those moved to seed Neighborcare (or similar services) in their own communities
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share simple remedies and recipes for enhanced health, born from challenges in my own life and from time spent as a lay-healer on my peninsula
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read from my book Caring in Remembered Ways* and speak of its inception and birth
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speak of my writing journey (over ten books published in NY and elsewhere)
The HomeTalks are free.
Donations toward time/travel costs are gratefully accepted.
Caring in Remembered Ways* is available
for purchase.
Fees vary for presentations/workshops
at medical schools, conferences, hospitals, etc.
(These presentations help make the HomeTalks possible.)
*This personal, practical book honors ways of caring the heart knows—deep-seeing ways that go beyond courtesy and kindness and empathy to the living compassion that embraces all the rest. It reminds us that true caring neither starts nor stops at the bedside, but extends to all life. Ways of being as well as ways of caring weave throughout Caring . . . . Surely, who we are colors all we do and give.
maggie davis, P.O. Box 370, Blue Hill, ME 04614 maggie@downeast.net 1-207-266-7673
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207-266-7673
PO Box 370, Blue Hill, Maine 04614
e-mail: maggie@downeast.net
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